I updated my wife’s mini-ITX existing build around August 2022 – everything is new except the case. Her previous build (link) was an i7-7700K with an EVGA CLC120mm AiO cooler mounted at the front (push/pull), and an EVGA GTX 980Ti SC (which I later upgraded to an EVGA 2070 Super). This new build is an […]
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Water Cooled Z490 with i7-10700K and RTX 3090
I built this Z490 custom water loop rig in early 2021 basically as a temporary build until I could finish putting together a Z590 rig. I probably would not have posted an entry for this build if almost all of the records of my main desktop builds had not been lost to the ether with […]
i7-7700K mini-ITX build
I built this mini-ITX rig for my wife around January 2019 using a Corsair 250D case. For a mini-ITX case, the Corsair 250D is very well thought-out, and there was no problem dropping in a 120mm radiator with push & pull fans in the front. The bequiet! push/pull fans on the radiator are the only […]
i7-7700K with Titan X (Pascal) AiO-cooled build
I built this rig around April 2017 with AiO water cooling on both the CPU and GPU. Overclocked the i7-7700K CPU to 5GHz stable on auto and plenty of room to go higher, but hitting 5GHz was my goal achieved. Temperatures on CPU remained around 55-60°C on full load. Overclocked the NVidia Titan X (Pascal) […]
Water Cooled i7-930 with 2 x GTX 480 FTW Hydros (SLI)
This was my first custom water loop build from early 2011, which won a $1,000 ModsRigs draw back in September 2013.